Jeffrey Steingarten writes food essays that combine appetite, scepticism and obsessive investigation. The Man Who Ate Everything follows him through questions ranging from bread and chocolate to dieting, salt, water and regional cooking, often beginning with a personal prejudice or practical problem and then testing it through travel, reading and repeated kitchen experiments. It Must've Been Something I Ate continues the same method with subjects such as pizza, espresso, truffles and perfect mashed potatoes. Steingarten's prose is funny, argumentative and unusually detailed, with recipes and food science appearing alongside restaurant criticism and culinary history. His work fits food writing, culinary essays and gastronomic memoir, especially for readers who enjoy writers such as Ruth Reichl or Calvin Trillin but want more laboratory-like curiosity in the kitchen. Read more Less
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